萼 — 12 strokes ／ Radical「艹」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 12 strokes ／ Radical「艹」
- On
- ガク
- Kun
- うてな
- Meaning
- the calyx
Origin
Grass 艹 with 咢 as phonetic: the cup of sepals that holds a flower.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 萼がく
the calyx
- 花萼かがく
the calyx of a flower
Example
花が落ちて萼だけ残る。
The flower falls and only the calyx remains.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)